Fact File

A five million year old piece of bone

‘A five million year old piece of bone that was thought to be the collarbone of a human like creature is actually part of a dolphin rib…The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone.’
Dr Tim White (anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley). As quoted by Ian Anderson in New Scientist, April 28, 1983, p.199.